The Minister of Education and Research, Daniel David, announced on Tuesday, July 8, that the package of fiscal measures to reduce the budget deficit includes the value for the hourly payment, in addition to increasing the teaching norm for teachers.
Daniel David said that measures are needed to limit the budget deficit. Photo: Mediafax
“We have to reduce the number of free norms we have in the system, number of norms that are high and where we pay or have expenses to pay by time in a very high amount. And then what do we have to do? Let’s take some of those hours in the teaching norm. We did this at a minimum level. That is, two hours are taken. explained the minister, in an intervention on Facebook.
According to Daniel David, the weekly norm will increase, on average, from 3.6 to 4 hours, which would be equivalent to about 24 additional delivery per day.
Also, the payment by time will be recalculated according to the entire salary, a practice already applied in other fields.
“Of course, this decreases the value of the payment we make for an hour taken by time, but it is a correct calculation and so it allows its country at this time”, David added.
The minister also announced that the structure of the classes was also rethought to reduce the free norms, being adjusted the limits on the number of students in the classroom and the criteria for the operation of schools with legal personality. These changes are aligned, says the minister, with European standards or with situations applied in Romania five years ago.
“Unfortunately, at this huge deficit that can block our country, education has made and has a contribution. It has and has a great contribution through some decisions may be well -intentioned, but completely unsustainable that targeted two things: increasing the expenses with human resources and increasing the stock market”, said Daniel David.
He stressed, however, that no measure will affect the salaries of teachers and that no jobs will be lost in the education system.
Measures are part of the government’s efforts to limit the budgetary expenses in the education system, in the context of a deficit considered “huge”.
The measures have aroused dissatisfaction among teachers. About 3,000 teachers in pre-university education were in Parliament, demanding that education not be sacrificed to cover a budget deficit that not those obliged to bear the budgetary cuts generated.
